Saturday, January 07, 2006

Two excerpts from Sweeney Todd:

"Mrs Mooney has a pie shop.
Does a business, but I notice something weird,
lately all her neighbor's cats have disappeared."

"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit,
and the vermin of the world inhabit it,
and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit
and it goes by the name of London. "


Why? Because I just read a rumor that Tim Burton will direct a movie musical version. I don't know who else out there is familiar with this particular work, but it's my favorite musical. Link to the story. It says that Johnny Depp is somehow attached, which sounds a bit odd. The titular character is an older man, at least in his mid-fifties or even early sixties. Aint it cool predicts an official announcement in a few weeks.

Monday, January 02, 2006

Most news blog sites have lists of notable events, memes, and novelties that made an impact on various factions of society in 2005. The compulsion to code and quantify such ephemera is not lost on me, and while I can't really explain this, I recall Nick Hornby explaining the phenomena of lists in his novel High Fidelity. Anyway, here is my list of things I enjoyed in 2005.

Comics:
I met Geoff Johns.
Fell- supercompressed Ellis
Loveless- Azzarello's take on Leone's western style
Infinite Crisis- I knew I'd have to read and cross-reference a lot in grad school, but not this much.
Astonishing X-men

Movies:
Serenity
Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins
The Aristocrats
Corpse Bride
Back to the Future marathon viewing
Batman and Robin/ Superman IV double feature night
Zatoichi

Music:
the Black Keys in Indy
Spookie Daly Pride in Indy
the Tomkats at the Heorot
Charlie Don't Surf in the basement next door
Jethro Tull in my headphones
the faint prospect of a Smashing Pumpkins reunion

Academia:
more animation
a foray into true non-linear storytelling
met a slew of new students, most of whom I hold in extremely high regard
worked on a documentary, didn't actually see any ghosts
got straight A's for the first time in my life
the Fickle Peach- a great place for out of class discussion, pool, and fooseball

Consumables:
macaroni and cheese is still roughly 40 percent of my diet
spicy noodle bowls
far too much atrium food
Boddingtons- it's always nice to name-drop my favorite beer and get approving nods from worldly types
Guiness- the old standby
La fin du Monde- gotta love a beer named "the end of the world"
the brat burger at the Ram
avgolomeno soup from Michelle
pretty much anything I ever ate at Mark and Sarah's place